LAS VEGAS, NV - The Clark County School District has been developing contingency plans in case the H1N1 epidemic worsens.

There will be no student absence threshold adopted, as has been the case in some other school districts around the country.

"We're just not seeing a high number of absences right now," says Diana Taylor, the health services director for the school district.

Instead, administrators are most worried about not having enough healthy staff members to safely operate schools.

Each school will have it's own, unique contingency plan.  They will focus on lining up substitute teachers, moving teachers from other schools and even having administrators teach classes.

Closing schools will be an absolute last resort.

"We have had staff members with influenza but we have not had to put any contingency plans in place," says Taylor.

Just last week, CCSD suffered its first student death related to swine flu.

6 year-old Dae'Jon Meadows, a student at Quinnah McCall Elementary, died after contracting swine flu.

His family has blamed the school district for not properly notifying parents of swine flu in classrooms.

"I don't want another family to go through what my family has gone through with the swine flu," says Dorothy Barnes, Dae'Jon's grandmother.

We've learned that school administrators have since sent out a notice of Dae'Jon's passing but that will not become standard policy district-wide.

"That was unique to McCall," says Taylor.  "Schools function autonomously in that respect.  Site administrators decide how they're going to handle those kinds of tragedies."

The school district added that the current swine flu situation does not appear to be as bad as originally anticipated.

They will be adding daily absence information for individual schools to the CCSD website in the coming weeks, so parents can monitor the situation at their child's school.